Marriage Record Translation

[tarheel56]

Hi! I need a translation for the marriage record of Jacobus Marchello-Maria Galasso-Pletto on the top left page. Why does Maria have two last names? Thanks!

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=442658

Thanks in advance!

[erudita74]

Looks like a double surname, but I don't know if that's a common occurrence in Castellamonte Torino. I've found it in some Sicilian ancestry.

Erudita

[erudita74]

Sometimes multiple families in the same town had the same surname and needed a way to distinguish themselves from others in the town with the same surname. One of the two surnames may have been what we in the U.S. call the "maiden" name of the mother, but this was not necessarily the case, as the one surname, while possibly from a previous generation, may have been a family surname/maiden name from several generations ago. What gets really confusing is when one of the two surnames doesn't appear in subsequent generations and one sibling, for example, uses one of the two surnames, and another sibling uses the other, or both use the double surname, but with the second surname from a different generation. This latter phenomenon even baffled a town official in one of my husband's ancestral Sicilian towns, and he was an older gentleman, close to retirement age, who was native to the town and had worked in the town all of his adult life. Unfortunately, we only had access to the civil records, and not church records, for the town, so we were limited in how far back we could go with researching the double surname and determining when, and how, it came to exist. Researching ancestry which involves double surnames can be difficult.
Erudita

[tarheel56]

Thanks for the explanation. Now I need the translation for the marriage record of Jacobus Marchello-Maria Galasso-Pletto on the top left page.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=442658

[erudita74]

Translation on your other thread. Sorry I didn't have time the other day.
Erudita

[tarheel56]

I appreciate all the help you have given me. Have a great day!

[erudita74]

Hope your day is going well too. You're very welcome.
Erudita